Mick Jagger releases two new songs

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Legendary musician Mick Jagger has released two new songs, including a collaboration with Skepta.

The 74-year-old rocker wrote "Gotta Get a Grip" and "England Lost" which features Skepta in April and wanted to release them straight away, rather than wait for an album. The Rolling Stones frontman says the tracks are a response to the "confusion and frustration with the times we live in" and the result of "anxiety, unknowability of the changing political situation."

"It's always refreshing to get creative in a different fashion and I feel a slight throwback to a time when you could be a bit more free and easy by recording on the hoof and putting it out there immediately. I didn't want to wait until next year when these two tracks might lose any impact and mean nothing," he adds.